Independent Retailers Assoc. targets Avenue of Fashion to attract more retail

Simply Casual's Rufus Bartell is working with the Independent Retailers Association of Detroit to attract new businesses to the Livernois Avenue of Fashion.

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"We’re meeting with the DEGC to develop, specifically, a business attraction and retention strategy for the Livernois/Seven Mile Road community," said Marja Winters, director of the mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization, referring to the Detroit Economic Growth Corp. "We hope to have strategy developed and implemented by the end of the year — and that it’s a sound strategy to use in other areas."

The community is one of the six targeted for investment by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s Next Detroit Initiative, Winters said.

"Looking five to 10 years down the road, we see (the Avenue of Fashion) as a destination place," Winters said. "From an economic perspective, we see dollars continuing to circulate in the community as a reinvestment in ourselves."

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